Do You Have A Winning Team?

There are days when, like the rest of us, you have wondered whether you should fire all the staff. Likewise, your staff were probably thinking it wouldn't be bad to hire a new boss. What's wrong with this picture?

Understanding Employee Motivation

A concise examination of the best ways to implement an effective employee motivation program.

Team Building: It Can Grow Your Business

Team building is essential. Learn how to use the team building concept to make your group succeed.

Team Building Adventures: Where Reality TV and the Corporate Boardroom Meet the Great Outdoors

Combining corporate team building and popular TV shows such as CSI, Amazing Race, and Survivor is an outstanding way to create unique and memorable events for groups and employees. Getting employees out of the boardroom and into the great outdoors allows them to get out of the corporate setting and well out of their comfort zone, where real self-learning can take place.

Corporate Team Building Events: Throw 'Distancing' to a Distance

The problem in the corporate team building process namely 'distancing' is predominantly inherent in employees' as well as in the employer's psyche. The corporate houses are spending huge amounts to unite the workforce into an active team. However, how the job is done?

10 Ways To Retain Your Top Talent

If LaBron James decided to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for another team, the performance of that franchise would drop like a rock. This is the case for any business, no matter what business you're in. Losing the 10% of your performers has 5-10 times more impact on your business than losing your average performers.

Business Process Consulting – Five Critical Steps in Corporate Team Building

Corporate team building is about the quality of our thinking and the shared vision we hold for the future. The skills required are around being able to eliminate our defensive behaviours, by being open with each other. The drive to learn is an imperative, as is the desire to build quality relationships with each other.

Do Values Have Value?

Values have been described as personal--or organizational--North Stars. Having values means we have a constant fixture to guide us in the face of uncertainty. In the Northern Hemisphere, as long as you can see the North Star, you can navigate successfully, whatever the circumstances, and arrive at your intended destination. Similarly, the presence of corporate values enables employees to make good decisions if no leader or other source of guidance is available.

Team Building Tips for Small Business

If you own a small business you have obviously thought about how to better build your team to work together. If you've been in business a long time you've probably found that sometimes personalities clash and yet the people are such the same you wonder how this is happening. Sometimes it is the competitive attitude and similarities and personalities that cause the conflict in the workplace.

How to Give and Receive Appreciation

We all deserve to be appreciated, yet we tend to expect others to take notice automatically when we do something worthy of appreciation.

Supporting Remote Team Performance

At CAL we have been involved with remote teams for a number of years and have spend time understanding was makes a good team and what makes a great team. The problems with a team that is not located in one place are different to standard office-based team issues and although there is no magic wand or standard problems here are a few classic issues.

Leadership - Integrity

What values and principles drive your business? More importantly, does the leader of your business consistently demonstrate these values? This month, I will address an important leadership characteristic that is all too often overlooked in our society today – integrity. Although many leaders use this term to characterize themselves, I find very few that are able to even tell me what it means to have integrity.

Essentials For Building a High Performance Team

Teams represent a very powerful mechanism for getting significant results in organizations today. High Performance Teams are a special class of team that has the ability to easily adapt in a rapidly changing environment and is an essential element for highly successful organizations.